Card Printer Solutions

Smart Five specialise in the Datacard brand of Card Printer Solutions and are the largest distributor in Southern Africa. These desktop printers, serves the card industry with pride and can accommodate just about every card application. They allow for advanced productivity features like:

printer pooling

load balancing

special feature development via SDK

versatile personalisation

close to ZERO downtime.

They all do bar-code printing as standard features and by fitting these printers with optional magnetic encoding and/or smart- card functionality you can create powerful applications like payment systems, access control, data storage and retrieval and many more.

Entry-Level Card Printer Solutions:

The SD160 is the perfect affordable entry-level solution. Launched in 2015, this printer prints the same quality as it's bigger brothers at a slightly reduced speed. But by no means does it have to stand back with all it's action packed features:

30 month warranty

Auto ribbon sensing and management

250 yield colour ribbon / 500 yield monochrome ribbon

Fluorescent printing capability

Ribbon-less printing functionality

USB communication

100 card input hopper and 30 card output hopper

Barcode printing

Magnetic encoding (mag-stripe)

Simplex printing (Manual duplex)

Datacard zero-fail card picker

Design volume: 5,000 cards per annum

Midrange Card Printer Solutions:

Datacard launched their most successful models, the SD260 and SD360 in 2012. Having learned from the SP35+ and SP55+ range of printers, Datacard improved the SD range with features like increased speed, quality and reliability, efficient card picking and printer management. The improved printer pooling feature allows for zero downtime printer management.

30 month warranty

Auto ribbon sensing and management

500 yield colour ribbon / 1,500 yield monochrome ribbon

Fluorescent printing capability

Ribbon-less printing functionality

USB and Ethernet communication

100 card input hopper and 30 card output hopper

Optional 200 input hopper and 100 output hopper

Barcode printing

Magnetic encoding (mag-stripe)

Simplex (SD260) / duplex (SD360) printing - (Manual duplex)

Datacard zero-fail card picker

Design volume: 45,000 cards per annum

Lockable option

High Security Card Printer Solutions:

The SD460 was launched in 2014 and has outwitted the competition with it new tactile and debowing features. Having learned from the SP75+ range of printers, Datacard improved the SD460 range with features like increased speed, quality and reliability, efficient card picking and printer management. The improved printer pooling feature allows for zero downtime printer management.

30 month warranty

Auto ribbon sensing and management

500 yield colour ribbon / 1,500 yield monochrome ribbon

Fluorescent printing capability

Ribbon-less printing functionality

USB and Ethernet communication

100 card input hopper and 30 card output hopper

Optional 200 input hopper and 100 output hopper

Barcode printing

Magnetic encoding (mag-stripe)

Simplex (SD260) / duplex (SD360) printing - (Manual duplex)

Datacard zero-fail card picker

Design volume: 45,000 cards per annum

Lockable option

Tactile options (Standard designs or own design)

Tactile impression can be done on several areas of the card after printing and laminating is complete. This allows additional visual security, great looking cards and tamperproof laminating.

Embossing and Indenting Card Printer Solutions:

The CE870 and CE840 was launched in 2014 and provides for never seen before quality desktop functionality. This range combines duplex colour printing with optional embossing and indent printing. These desktop printers can now be used for instant issuance of banking, loyalty or membership cards to name a few. This functionality has always been associated with backroom or centralised card printing with prolonged lead times and large capital outlay. Being part of the SD family, all the SD feature that come standard with the SD360 is automatically part of this solution. Datacard went one step further and created an option to select cards from multiple card input hoppers. This allows for printing multiple cards on the fly without changing the cards in the input hopper, allowing the data and software to select the correct card for the correct individual. Do we need to say more ? Contact us now for your quote ...